Defining 'Production-Ready' for Real Apps: A Line-by-Line Breakdown

The "production-ready" word does 90% of the work and pays for 10% of it

Every starter on the planet ships a green Deploy button. Click it, your app is on the internet. Anyone who has tried to charge money for the result knows what that button does not do.

I'm going to define "production-ready" line by line — seven specific, falsifiable checks — score a typical sandbox MVP against them, and then walk through how a full-stack kit closes the gap without burying you in ceremony.

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